The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1869, Page 6

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Mr. Motiey’s reception was warmly commented upon by the London press yesterday, The London Times, News, Star, Telegraph and Pal Mall Gazette ll contained editorials on the subject. ‘ The Irish Church bill was read for the first time in the House of Lords last night. General Dix was the recipient of a magnificent banquet in Paris on the ogcasioa of his retirement from the post of United States Minister to Napoieon’s Qourt. Four hundred persons of note attended, It ts thought probable that Earl Spencer will shortly resign the Lord Licutenantcy of Ireland. United States Minister Jay was introduced to the Austrian Premier yesterday. The republican members of the Spanish Cortes, it {9 said, will not oppose the final vote on the question Of the form of government, but they will deciare against the prescribed oath of the new constitution, Cuba. Minister Nelson nas arrived at Mavana on his way to Mexico. The Contoocook is at Havana. Mexico. Despatches by way of Havans state that ine gov- ernment, the press and Minister Rosecrans all indig- Dantiy depy the statements recently made in this Country relative to selling Sonora. Sixteen of Pala- Go's officers were captured and shot in Sinaloa. The Payment of the foreign devs is being discussed. The question of impeaching the Supreme Court Judges is creating some exciting discussion between the court and Congress, Negrete was near Queretaro. Miscellaneous, ‘The public debt statement which will be issued to-day will contain interesting items not previously mdted. The decrease in six per cent bonds by Treasury purchase is $4,000,000, and the gold balance Over gold notes is from seventy-five to seventy-eight Millions. The Indians have tnaugurated a desperate guerilla Warfare in Kansas, thelr depredations extending from the Republican and Salomon rivers to the end of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Twenty white per- gona have been killed by prowling savages in West- @fn Kansas within a week, and in Saline county alone thirteen have been killed andas many more ave beon carried of. The Indians seem to have f@bandoned partially their old plan of moving in Strong bodies. General Schofleiad has very few troops, and four surveying parties of United States OMocera are out in the most exposed part of the State without the protection of a military force. An Indian chief, belonging to a hostile tribe tn arizona, és now held in custody by the military authorities at Angel Island, San Francisco, as a hostage for the good behavior of his tribe. In Senator Wade's conversation with the Presi- Gent on Monday le said that if he was President he Would take care of nis party friends ana let the * other fellows go. The President intimated that might be too exorbitant, and the ex-Senator jed that he would let them make the most of if they were not satisfied with what they got. But the President and the ex-Senator agreed that the Presidency was not what it was cracked up to be, and that private life wae far preferable to public, The quarre! between Governor Reid, of Florida, and the State Legislature has resuited in a virtual Fepudiation of the State debt, the Governor having @rranged with the State Treasurer to refuse to pay the interest accruing on a large amount of bonis is- sued by direction of the Legisiature for the purvose ‘of carrying on the State business. The “wealthy Englishman” who recently returned @ number of United States boads to the Treasury fand refused tojaccept any interest on those he hoids, is now said, with a strong air of probability, to bea lunatic. William A. Pile, of Missourt, who was refused con- firmation by the Senate as Minister to Brazil, bas been appointed Governor of New Mexico. Senator Ross visited President Grant on Monday, nd was recived quite graciously, considering the late disagreement between the two gentiemen. Of $780,000 in specie, which the steamer Golden City carried from San Francisco yesterday, $676,000 Is inveaded for England and $95,000 for New York. General George H. Thomas and his staff have ar- Tived in San Francisco in seven days and ten hours from New York. Petitions for the annexation to the city of Boston Of Somerville and all the territory lying within six of the Boston City Hall, south of Charies river, vo been reported by a committee of the Massa. ohusetis Legisiature, with a recommendation that the matter bo referred to the next General Court, Lewis Dougiass, the colored type setter in the Printing Bureau at Washington, has been taken from the case and made 4 holder of copy. In the position he is not required to be a member of the but the question will probably be finally decided apyhow in the meeting of the National at Albany. Rogistration Board in Washington, before whom a female delegation appeared several times ‘when the registration was going on and demandea $0 have their names enrolled, have finally decidea on their ease. They say women are debarred by law from the franchise, A Mr. J. K. Hl, Wilcox, who ee headed the tadies’ delegation, has asked to have hie | from ihe present high rate besides the burdoa ame stricken from the tat, nae considers himself | of taxation, {t-governs in a great measure i aati echadi <r ‘sales 0 | the interest of money generally and makes it Lt 13 stated that the fourteen special Treasury] Very dear. Cheap money is the life-giving agents appointed by Secretary Boutwell, cack one | Stream to commerce, trade and enterprise. pa whom -_ ato leony st remy ta whose | Dear money causes stagnation to business and nized by the laws, nor entitled ‘legally to draw a ’ ° It ai a the merey of foreiga capi- dollar from the ‘Treasury. There are no auch ottices | talists. - wb Pye other ao sy recognized. money is cheap and abundant pro! industry. Instead of capital being invested in manufactures, agriculture and improvements sine die yesterday. sary le yest I. re were 40,000 children in the procession, about business when he can get eight or nine Beste Pia hug-ainal cfr the Spirit | per cent om money put into United States a before Ju: wi yesterday, a on the complaint of Mr. Henderson, of the burlesque — —— eg ee gad are fe troupe at Niblo's, of assault and battery and libel, | °™Pt from taxation. n it fosters the wild- Butler waived an examination in both cases and | est speculation in Wall street and at other meters _ yore money centres. It is, as we see by daily expe- fat m, the ex-policeman who com- milted the late assault witn a policeman’s club on — eens co Bony Police Superintendent Kennedy, was yesterday tried a8, ie debt were low In the Court of Specia! Sesstons, found gutity ana | People of surplus means only would make a sentenced six months to the Penitentiary. Two brothere.in-law, named Strickland and Wa- ters, hada fatal altercation yesterday at the resi- dence of Waters, in South Fifth street, Williams- burg. Strickland, it appears, was abusing his wife, Waters’ sister, when Waters interfered and the fight commenced, in which the latter shot Strickland twice. His condition is critical, Waters gave him- self ap. ‘The waiters employed in the various hotela nave struck for an advance of five dollars a month on their present wages. The proprietors resist the de- mand, except in a few instances, and, as they have been unable to obtain experienced hands, the bil- Uard markers, porters and grooms are acting as waiters. The Cunard steamship Russia, Captain Lott, will sail to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Mails will close at the Poat Ufice at ten A. M. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Cuarleston, S. 0. The stock market yesterday was irregular and alternately animated and dull. Gold advanced to 19934, closing finally at 130%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Louis Dent and Nathaniel Paige, of Wash- ington; General James McQuade, of Utica; General 0. L. Lee, of New Orleans; G, B. Lindeman, of Penn- Sylvania, and Rev. Robert B, Collier, of Chicago, are permanent investment in it, as they do in the three per cent consols of England. If the present state of things continues the most fatal consequences will follow, for the rich will be- come richer cud the poor poorer from year to year. One of the first things, therefore, that Congress should do is to reorganize the whole debt at a much lower rate of interest, and thus to relieve the people of a portion of their bur- dens and to make money cheaper. In the end this will prove equally as advantageous to the bondholders as to the public, At any rate the first consideration in this matter is the wel; fare of the community at large. The Irish Church Bill—The Question Now with the Lords. It is now some days since we were made aware of the fact that the Irish Disestablish- ment and Disendowment bill had been fully discussed in a committee of the House of Com- mons and been endorsed by a large majority. We called attention to the fact at the time, and stated that the bill was now virtually before the Lords. Some little delay has taken at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. De Luna, Secretary of the Brazilian Legation; C. H. Beranger, of the French Legation; Captain Cook, of the steamship Java; E. G. Williams, 0. H. Currie and C. E. Currie, of London, England, are at | Changed in passing through the House, was the Brevoort House. brought up for the third and final reading. Major General S. S. Carroll and Generai J. M.| After a debate, which seems to have been more Brannan, of the United States Army; Robert M, i Alden, of the United States Navy; E. D, Babcock, of | dous than interesting, the bill, ina House Copenhagen, and Joseph A. Rogers, of Montana, are more than usually full, was carried by a ma- at the Metropolitan Hotel. jority of one hundred and fourteen. W. H. Eaton, of Madrid; Oolonel J. Fiero, of Au- It is but on rare occasions that the Com- burg, and Dr. Thomas K. Peckham, of Geneva, are | mong speak with so much emphasis and with so at the St. Cnarles Hotel. E. B. Young and J. B, Sackett, of Buffalo, ana | Much unanimity. As we have said before, the George WW. White, of Lexington, Ky., are at the st. | bill is changed in no essential feature. It has Julien Hotel. passed through the House of Commons in eli eaiay of Mobile, Ala., and Robert McLane, | much the same shape in which it entered it. of timore, are at the New York Hotol. Robert Campbeil, of St. Louis; Colonel J. T. Hind, Zn this nuniter, Sr, Gtadistone hea bad valet of Boston; Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island; B. unexampled success. The success is largely Taft, of California, and Alexander H. Price, of Mas- | due to Mr. Gladstono himself. His mastery epiier as Py ws Fitth popes Hotel. of detail, his clearness of statement, his ene! . A. Barnum, of Syracuse; General F. i ji Starling, of Washington; Aine? Daly, of Provi- ee eee ne oe ue ne dence; Ben. Stark, of New London, and G, K. Ander- might seem hopelessly involved, have never son, of Titusville, are at the Hoffman House. heen 80 conspicuously revealed. It is not to Colonel Winthrop and lady, Captain Lachesney | be denied, however, that the success 18 also due and Captain H. A. Gadsden arrived yesterday per | to the unanimity which has characterized the steamsnip Ville de Paria from Havro and Brest. entire liberal party on this t question of place in reporting the bill from committee for the final action of the House. In the Com- mons on Monday evening the bill, almost un- Prominent Departures. roe 2 me els Sette saree reform from first ¢0 last, For the present ihe A.M. Clapp tet yesterday for Washington: Majot | Gommons ate done with it. Their work is P. 1. Tarnley, for West Point; Alex. Mitchell, for Milwaukee, and W. B, Bement, for Philadelphia. M, Cerruti, Minister Plenipotentiary of Italy to the done and well done. The bill will now with- out delay be brought before the Lords. How United States, gud Mr, Thompgon, United States | will the Lords deal with it? This question is* Consul fo “duthamipion, paulea yesterday in the | easily answered. Tho Lords like not the bill, steamslip Allemannia for Piymouth and Hamburg. | i is felt to be a blow at privilege. They may chafe and fume, but they cannot resist. They know that Mr. Gladstone is in earnest; that if A benevolent and conscientious Englishman, they throw out the bill Mr. Gladstone has said to have been a member of Parliament for- | Power enougi to send it back unaltered; and merly, who holds a United States six per cent | they dread the exercise of his prerogative in bond, has returned to our Treasury Depart- the matter of creating as many liberal peers as ment the bond with accrued interest for the | Shall make their opposition worthless, Earl purpose of having the interest reduced to three | Grey finally carried the first Reform bill by per cent. He considers six per cent too high, | threatening to exercise this prerogative. The The Interest on that three per cent is enough, and acts, there- | threat in that case was enough. We do not fore, from a sense of justice. letter to Secretary Boutwell he reiterates his | 2ecessary. conviction that our government ought not to | granted that the fate pay more than three per cent. It may be said that this is an extraordinary freak of an eccen- tric individual and is of no importance in itself. In Washiagton, where reduced money rates, a low rate of interest or conscientious restitution are very seldom heard of or made, the British gentleman is already classed asa lunatic, or at least a monomaniac, owing to his action in this instance, and his assertion that a lower rate of iaterest for money should be infused in all civilized countries, Whoever he may be, we do not suppose he attached any importance to the trifling amount to be saved to our government by the conversion of his six per cent bond to a three ; but he was desirous, no doubt, of stimulating public attention to a great subject in connection with national finances, But, whatever may have been his motive, his act has brought before us a ques- tion that sooner or later will demand a solution. This gentleman speaks of six per cent, but, infact, our debt bears nearer nine per cent when measured by the currency of the country, which is the measure of all values and trans- actions, Six per cent in gold is near eight market price of gold. That is really the in- terest we are paying on the debt. It would bankrupt and rain any other government in the world. England, with all her resources and accumulated capital, could not stand it, If our wealth, resources and progress be so great that we submit to the burden at present, the time will soon come when the people must quired to meet such excessive interest on a vast debt in addition to the current expenses of government. ple should have to pay eight to nine per cent interest on the debt. In many States this rate is considered usurious and ruinous, and laws are enacted against such usury. Strange to say, too, that the Treasury Department, under and a half per cent in currency at the present day In a second j imagine that in this case the threat will be It may, therefore, be taken for of the Irish Church is sealed and that an old and irritating Irish grievance is doomed. Banquet To GeneraL Dix.—General Dix enjoyed a magnificent banquet in Paris yester- day. The demonstration was made in recog- nition of the value of his services as a minister and his character as a citizen and a soldier. It was brilliantly attended, about four hundred per sons of note being present. The speeches were eminently patriotic and forcible in exposition of the grand development of the American nation and its consequences to the human family. Our early struggles for independence were referred to, anda high compliment was paid to the France of that day for the aid afforded our forefathers by her sons. The genius of Napoleon the Third and the virtues of Eugénie were lauded, after which the com- pany separated in excellent humor and with a truly national feeling. Toe PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLIES.—The Presbyterian Assemblies, Old and New Schools, which have been in session for such a length- ened period in this city, stand adjourned. The members of the Old School dissolved yester- day, the New School delegates dispersing the previous. A good many crochets, termed religious essentials, with a number of involut- ed points of modern theology, remain knotted as before. Reunion has not been completed. The different representations of the Churches have marched off, and the soul of John Knox is, it is to be hoped, ‘marching on.” E1out axp Twenty Lapins ix Ling.—Eight revolt at the enormous weight of taxation re- | and twenty ladies of Washington applied lately to the Board of Registration to have their names placed on the roll of electors, The It is monstrons that the peo- | Board replied that the law distinctly states that “males” shall be registered, and rejected the appeal, owing to this perhaps slight differ- ence. Slight it must be certainly in some cases; for a gentleman named Willcox ac- knowledges that the ladies could vote more the late administration, did all it could to in- | intelligently than himself, and he applies to crease this burden by converting the debt- have his name expunged from the roll. His hearing currency and no interest into the gold | estimate is no doubt accurate, Fall in, ladies, interest-bearing debt. The whole policy was in favor of the bondholding creditors and against the people, who are the debtors. It is this which has made the debt far heavier than at any period since it was created. The wel- fare of the country—the interests of the mass of the people—requires that by some means or other the rate of interest on the debt should be | both capital splitters!” | reduced. Leave the broom aside and rush to the ballot, Spritrers.—The Tennessee democrats are rejoicing in the split among the radicals, They offer a conundrum in this connection, to wit:— “Why are the radicals of Tennessee like the iamented Lincoln?” Ans. ‘Because they are If any one should rail at this answer it is very apparent that the joke But there aro other and great evils rogulting | will create no side-splitting accident, Cuba aud the Sister Republics of Amert- camAn Opening for American States- manship. The Cubae question grows apace. A few weeks since we announced the opening of the ports of Mexico to the Cuban flag, by special decree of President Juarez, and the last mail from South America brings the intelligence that Peru has formally recognized the new republic, Chile, it is stated, will do the same, and we may reasonably expect that all the sister republics of America will follow at an early day. They all have a feeling towards Spain similar, but far more intense, to that which animated the people of thyeUnited States towards Great Britain during the first gene- ration after our war of independence. That feeling was not satisfied until it culminated in our second war with England in 1812, anda like result is evident in all the South American colonies, In fact, war exists to-day between Peru and Spain, the truce between the bellige- rents having been extended to enable peace to be restored through the good offices of our government. In addition to the request for recognition the’Cuban envoy in Peru has asked for a loan of the two monitors recently purchased in this country, and one of which was examined by some of the republican officials during a short visit to the Bay of Nipe, in Cuba. The spirit which animates the Cuban government, and which will produce fruit in some if not in many of the thousand ports of the sister re- publics, will be seen in an extract from a private letter written by General Quesada to a naval officer in this city, which we publish to-day in another column. The writer of that letter holds the important position of Com- mander-in-Chief of the patriot forces, and it will be seen that he looks forward to combina- tions which shall drive the Spanish ships from the sea. Our own experience during the late war shows how great is the evil which may be inflicted by a single armed cruiser against merchant vessels, Spanish ships are no ex- ception to the laws’which govern commercial transactions, and intercourse between Cuba and Spain would find a refuge only in power- ful ships of war or under a neutral flag. We should see a return of the condition of affairs in 1830, when the complete disappearance of the Spanish flag from the ocean marked the era of greatest decay in the monarchy. With the state of feeling which the Cuban revolution has brought out in all the Spanish- American republics we shall not be surprised to see all their ports opened to Cuban oruisers and their prizes—a measure which of itself would give a great impulse to the war against Spain, both on the part of Cuba and Peru; and a rupture of the peace negotiations between the latter Power and Spain would be no, very difficult matter to accomplish. The vital point in tho question would be the atti- tude which the United States might assume. If Mr. Secretary Fish should determine to carry his interpretation of our absurd neu- trality laws to the extent of trying to suppress American sympathizers with free Cuba we might find ourselves in an anomalous position. One of these anomalies would be the fact now before us. Spain is building to-day thirty steam gunboats in our shipyards, and we could not refuse the same privilege to any of the sister republics that might ask it. But should it be denied by Mr. Fish there can be no doubt that American capital would find a way to put cruisers on the ocean against Spain if there were profit in it and harbors to use, and we should find our government and our citizens engaged in a very strange conflict with each other. These and similar embar- rassments are destined to spring up continu- ally as the Cuban question grows—and it will grow, for it is the living quostion among the nations of the New World to-day. The complication opens a field of vast extent for a truly American statesman, and we hope to see some one occupy it. With all her curious crotchets about and against us, we owe a debt to Spain that it would well become us to repay to her to-day in the hour of need of her new and freedom-impelled movement. She was one of the first of the nations of Europe to recognize our independence in days when the founders of our republic were beset with enemies and doubt attended them on every hand. To-day she is in stress from the complications which attend both her home government and her administration in Cuba. Let the United States propose that a truce shall be established between the belligerents in Cuba and that commissioners shall be sent by both parties to Washington to see if somo arrangement cannot be made between them, satisfactory alike to the honor of Spain and Cuba and consonant with the interests of both parties. That such a solution can be found we do not entertain a doubt, and when found it will contribute largely to the establishment of the new government now germinating in Spain and to the general interests of all the sister republics of America. A Svaorstion ror a Copici.—Rich men die and leave millions to be devoted to the mental improvement of mankind. Why don’t some of them reflect before they go that im- provements in public markets would furnish more meat for the multitude—to out it fine, something more meet for their understand- ings? Wantev—A flower that has decorated the grave of a dead bero of the revolution of 1776, or of the war of 1812, or of the Mexican war of 1846, Apply at the office of the G. A. R. Very Stxevtar.—There has not been an arrival of brimstone or sulphur at this port since the Presbyterian Assemblies have been holding their conventions here—a period of some two weeks. The supply in the other place must be good. A “QuEstIon or Space anp Vatvr.”—The Cincinnati Commercial gives asa reason why it did not report a speech for the prosecution in a late case for damages against the Western Union Telegraph Company, for unfealty in the discharge of the provisions of a contract, that it was ‘‘a question of space and value.” That's what's the matter with all the Western press, as enterprising and intelligent as they may be. The consideration of ‘‘space and value” pre- vents them from taking an enlarged and me- tropolitan view of journalism, and hence they succumb to an arrogant and overpowering mo- nopoly, and inflict inconceivable mischief upon their own constituencies, Wake up, ye Weat- ern newspaper mon! ' NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, weiscresthe catiaiee Our Relations with Rusia. ‘Touching our relations with Russia we have simultaneously two items of agreeable infor- mation—one from Washington to the effect that our new Minister for St. Petersburg, Gov- ernor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, in view of an early departure for his destination, called the other day upon the President for his instruc- tions and received them, and that the Presi- dent and Secretary Fish were very particular, in their suggestions to Mr. Curtin that he should im upon the Czar the essential faot that his friendship for the United States is fully appreciated and reciprocaied. This is right. Secondly, we learn from the Russian capital that the Emperor has signified his in- tention of sending an extraordinary envoy to Washington for tho purpose of congratulating General Grant upon his election as President of the United States, and also to express the value his Majesty sets on the maintenance of good relations between the two countries; and this is good. We have reason to remember with especial favor the friendship of Russia for the United States. It did not fail us in all the trying ordeal of our late Southern rebellion, when England and France were with the enemy, and would have joined him for our destruction but for their distrust of each other. Through all this severe trial Russia remained our un- shaken friend, and we know, therefore, the value of the renewal at this day by the Czar of his desire for the maintenance of these un- broken relations of mutual confidence and good will. His congratulations to General Grant, we know, involve an expression of satisfaction at the preservation and expansion of the great republic of the West from the great and expanding empire of the Eastern hemisphere. The sagacious Emperor sees that as his power is extended along the eastern shores of Asia the United States will not stand ‘in his way, and that against the intrigues of the Western Powers American and Russian enterprise may jointly seoure and har- moniously share a commercial and diplo- matic ascendancy in China and Japan, and that toward these great objects the Burlin- game Embassy has already opened the door. On our part we have much to expect in the devolopment of new fields of trade in Eastern Asia through Russian enterprise, and little or nothing from the intrigues of England and France in China and Japan. Hence, in view of our approaching commercial activity in Eastern Asia, the importance to us of the closest relations of friendship with the Czar. Tue Carriace Way, having been taken for the public use, belongs to the public at large, and no portion of it can be monopolized by any citizen for his private use; nor can autho- rity be given any person to so occupy the car- riage way by any power less than the Legis- lature. Nevertheless the infraction of this public right is common, and it is never pos- sible to find even Br alway e tirely clear, and the obstruction is always on the authority of the Aldermen. Mayor Hall has taken the initiative of breaking up this bad practice in his action on the resolution passed in both Boards to permit Patrick Moran to occupy one-third of the carriage way at a point in Broadway. His message is as follows :— Respectfully disapproved and returned with the following objection:—Under various decisions of the Court of Appeals in respect to private uses of the ublic atreets such a Pete can be conferred only y an act of the Legisiature, which renders unneces+ sary any reference to the inexpediency and injustice to the public of this permit or any similar one. A. OAKEY HALL, ‘or of the City. May 27, 1869. Harmigss as Lamps—The American eagle and the British lion, as represented on Minis- ter’s Motley’s first appearance before John Bull. Heartn Orrioers.—There has been in Philadelphia a health officer with the namo of Rush, who, notwithstanding, has been the slowest of mortals, in virtue perhaps of that common rule of names by which Strong is usually feeble, Black very fair, White dark, Brown often blue, and Green anything but verdant. He was a health officer who has made himself famous by dying, and we would com- mend his example in this respect to health officers elsewhere. He fulminates against the newspapers that they are ‘disjointed thinkers.” How many of these little fellowa there are who, limping far behind the age, unable to keep up with its intellectual activity, lose the thread of the thought and then fancy that it is something else than themselves that is defective. But we cannot crow over Phila- delphia, for have we not Swinburne? What is the reason of this propensity of great cities to have health officers with addled brains? Srirpina.—The Mobile Register says the democracy of Alabama is astir. Stir it up! The more it is stirred the better it will appear. Lona-Heetep Dirtomacy.—The respect- able ‘‘cullud pusson” who has been made Minister to Hayti went to seo President Grant to have some confidential communication, and all the talk over his mission was of the an- nexation to the United States of the country he goes to. Now, this strictly confidential matter was no sooner talked over than the Minister came outside and told it to the cor- respondents, So it is printed, so it goes to Hayti before the Minister, and they know his game ere he arrives, This is the long-heeled diplomacy, and we think the long-headed kind is better. A Omanok Yer ror Taat Littig Bit— In Mr. Motley’s reference in Liverpool to ‘‘the principles of justice and honor.” Let him stick to that settlement, and beware of a sur- feit of English roast beef and plum pudding, and he will not fail. But let him not forget the fiasco of Johnson. Anpy Jonson is about to make a raid from Tennessee into Kentucky, accompanied by Colonel Jack Williams. Andy always won when Jack turned up, A Osaxce ror Some Exterpristne YAN- Kge Nn Lonpoy—In a cheap edition of Sen- ator Sumner’s great speech. It has not been printed in full in any of the English journals, while they have all made such an uproar about it that the English people must be ourious to read it. Har Dozen on tHe HaLr Suent.—A Wash- ington correspondent of the Worcester Spy states that George T. Downing, Chairman of the Colored People’s National Gommittee, will be appointed Collector of Qustoma at New- port, R. 1, Quo fancy rogat, Husry wot * -_-_ee—e aa Tho Protectant Congress at Worms. Some weeks agp we announced the fact that arrangements had been made by the Protes- tants of Germany to hold @ grand Congress at Worms on the 3ist day of May. We also stated that it was the object of the Congress to frame an answer to the recent invitation of Pius the Ninth fa regard to the Ecumenical Council. A cable despatch informs us that the Congress was held on the day appointed, that somo twenty thousand persons were present and that a unanimous vote was carried condemaa- tory of the encyclical and of the syllabus. Protestant Germany thus refuses to go back to Rome, and it will have nothing to do with the Ecumenical Council. This is the secon fornmal refusal, so far as we remember. The Greek Church had refused before. The Arch- bishop of Canterbury has not yet given an- swer; neither have the English Independents nor the Scotch Presbyterians. The Protestant Churches of America have been equally silent and inactive. The New School Presbyterian is, we believe, the only American Church which has resolved to give a formal reply. The Greek Church, the German Church and the New School Presbyterians have, at loast, been courteous, This is to their praise. It is manifest now that the Catholic Church will have the Ecumenical Council to itself, and that it will be allowed to remould the world and the Church according to its own liking. It is some consolation to the Holy Father to know that he has done what he could to welcome the wanderers back to the fold. If they will still be prodigal the fault is theirs, not his, Tar New Post Orrice.—The question in regard to the change of site for this proposed edificehas made but little progress for some time, as the high contracting parties—the United States and our Common Council—being such large bodies, necessarily moved slowly. Now, however, something has been done, though it is, to be sure, but little. Motion has been made in the Board of Aldermen to appoint a committee of members of each Board to confer with the United States Commis- sioners, and a resolution to this effect has been ‘4aid over.” This is equivalent to the laying ofan egg. There must be due time for hatch- ing, and then we may know something of our chicken. Ministzr MortiEy has told the people ot Liverpool that we as well as they are ‘‘ad- dicted to commerce ;” not that commerce is a bad habit, or a crime, but only that the Minister is nothing if not scholarly, and ie not. above a little pedantic vanity in presont- ing a word here and there in an obsolete aspect. We hope we shall not have this fault to find with his diplomacy. Prien Smattrox is pronounced “epidemic,” but by those not exactly advised as to the force of this word. It is not epidemic, nor is there any gspecial occasion for alarm in regard to it fitcaics in Bo ccwell's a arg of no importance to us whatever. There are always cases there; and the groater or lesa number of them is a point of no moment, as we aro as safe with them there as we would be if they were in the Island of Crete. Tue Southern Metropolis, a weekly, hae been started in Baltimore, It is probably the organ of Reverdy Johnson. Why shouldn't Reverdy have an organ beside one that is opeo only to con‘‘dine” punishment? The first bil) of fare in the Southern Metropolis amounts te only a little over four columns, and comprises dishes fit for monarchies, not for republics. VERMIFUGE ‘For THE Porps—Tho late Diet at Worms. MASONIC. Grand Lodge of Frec and Accepted Masons. The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Ac- cepted Masons of the State of New York commenced its annual communication yesterday at Apollo Hall, corner of Twenty-eighth strect and Broadway. Present, M. W. James Gibson, of Salem, Grand Mas- ter; R. W. John H. Anthon, Deputy Grand Master, and all the Grand oMcers, together with the follow- ing District Deputy Grand Masters:—R. W. Jerome Buck, New York; R. W. Reeves E. Selmes, New York; R. W. George W. Harris, Brooklyn; R. W. Isaac Lea, Stapleton, R. W. James W. Husted, Peekskill; R. W. G, Fred, Wiltsio, Newburg; R. W. John W. Hoffman Greenville; R. W. Alexander B. King, Troy; R. W. G. Tobey, Granville; R. W. J. D. Serviss, Ameterdam; R. W. W. H. Gray, Malone; R. W . A. 0. Beach, Water+ town; R. W. J. T. Ferry, Utica; R, W. Joa, B. Chaffee, Binghamton; R. W. Orrin Welch, Syracuse; R. W. Jonn D. Williams, Elmira; R. W. George 0. Baker, Clyde; R. W. John Ransom, Warsaw; R. W. Horace P, Johnson, Hornelisville; R. W. Charles Craig, Lock- port; R. W. Joseph L. Haberstro, Buffalo; R. W. James 1. Henry, Jamestown; R. W. L. Bradford Prince, ag ap i R. W. Charles Sackreuter, New Bi] on AY Te Leeann aod York, 2 W. an "Rev. R. 1S sehoonmaker. He Finkea ta a beautiful an jing manner to the death of late R. W. H. Pi ho, together with . and Rev. |. Platt, wl Oe crea ee re Sewall Fisk, were missed from eir respect jaces. The number of lod; Ly ogee was 000, with @ re tation of early 3,000 inciudt e rooms in which the communication is heid the it — are the best which have been the Grand Lodge for several past. The rincipal room is splendidly vent and the Fransactions can be carried on in safety, there being no place whatever by an caves- og could learn anything of what ocours within the Grand Lodge. So well pleased were com- fe Ey mittee to whom the matter was referred tl booked the rooms for 1870, by which time it is nestly hoped that a Masonic Hall will be in course erection this city, and completed for munication of 1871. Prayer having been offered by the R. W. and Rev, R. L. Schoonmaker, Grand the Grand af z i the craft. The Grand Secretary reported that he had re- ceived Cage} the year from various sources $67,947 64, which he had paid into the handa of the Grand Treasurer. Twenty-seven new lodges had re- ceived warrants and eight dispensations since last communication, The number of er which dues last year was 615, from which the fouk statistics have been derived :— Number of inttiations to 1s: Atfiltations . ing ‘700 one Total in good standing 1st May, 1868........ T0938 Number of lodges now on pn 635. One hundred and. ten have incorporated their trustees, and five Lave special charters hy the Legislature, 1 and jum fund showed ena gta ease clenare gaa "of $68 26, he 1 the the Ene pd be $267, Pra 1,000, and $4,000 for Bokerred € foritoo ou tall aid ‘Asyttim, ‘The Grand Treasurer reported that his } expenses $67,469 99; bal fe several standing ogmmitteea were tho wi. i Master's Addy eas then